Approaching the Elephant
Approaching the Elephant

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Year one for Lucy, Jiovanni and director Alexander at the Teddy McArdle Free School in Little Falls, New Jersey, where classes are voluntary and rules created by democratic vote. Wilder is there from the beginning, observing an indelible cast of outspoken young personalities as they form relationships, explore their surroundings and intensely debate rule violations, until it all comes to a head.... (Full plot summary below)

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Year one for Lucy, Jiovanni and director Alexander at the Teddy McArdle Free School in Little Falls, New Jersey, where classes are voluntary and rules created by democratic vote. Wilder is there from the beginning, observing an indelible cast of outspoken young personalities as they form relationships, explore their surroundings and intensely debate rule violations, until it all comes to a head.

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The A.V. Club - 9/10 by A.A. DowdThe footage, edited by Actress director Robert Greene, coheres into what feels like one long, chaotic school day. You can practically feel the pulse of grown-up veins, the fraying of last nerves.
Village Voice - 9/10 by Calum MarshThe faults and merits of the free-school movement are elucidated with a steely, journalistic rigor. More surprising is that this candid glimpse plays as exhilarating drama.
RogerEbert.com - 9/10 by Matt Zoller SeitzThe movie is significant as a movie: it's intelligent, sensitive and expertly made. But it's also significant because of its ability to provoke introspection and arguments. In its deceptively modest way, it's as much a Rorschach test as "American Sniper." Everybody who sees it will draw a different picture of the elephant.
Slant Magazine - 9/10 by Christopher GrayThe film's 90 minutes are a disorienting cyclone of destructive incidents and propulsive energy.
The Dissolve - 8/10 by Scott TobiasMuch of the observational brilliance of Approaching The Elephant comes from how closely form relates to content: Out of chaos comes order, both at Teddy McArdle and in the film, which brings the personalities and conflicts into sharper focus as it goes along.
FILMINK (Australia) - 8/10 by Glen FalkensteinApproaching the Elephant is at once a cautionary tale and frequently thought-provoking insight into an uncommon form of education.
The New York Times - 7/10 by Nicolas RapoldMs. Wilder, in her debut feature, riskily opts to leave much of the children’s educational activity fairly vague. Which gives it one more thing in common with school: You need to pay attention.
The New Yorker - 7/10 by Richard BrodyAmanda Rose Wilder’s nuanced and passionate documentary, about the first year of a “free” elementary school in New Jersey, reveals the glories and the limitations of unstructured classrooms and observational filmmaking alike.

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